Though this might not be precisely the answer you seek, Professor Hubert Dreyfus is nearing his eighties and is still teaching, with great enthusiasm, courses on Martin Heidegger, phenomenology, existentialist literature, and aesthetics in a highly analytic Philosophy department at Berkeley.

He goes out of his way to make his lectures available to the public and is the only scholar I've met thus far that doesn't use their age as an attempt to excuse themselves from using the internet as a means to extend their classroom to reach the greatest audience. If you're interested, you can find them podcasted on itunes.posted by Aleatoire at 1:33 PM on November 5, 2008

Yes, "taught until they died" would also be a good way to put it. But the notion of "kept teaching having reached very old age" is my main concern.posted by amusem at 1:35 PM on November 5, 2008

Quine lived to 92. I'm not exactly sure when he officially stopped teaching. Wikipedia says he was affiliated with Harvard until he died..posted by chndrcks at 1:36 PM on November 5, 2008

W.V.O. Quine was officially affiliated with Harvard up until his death at age 82. Some of that time was in retirement, but he did quite a bit of writing and publishing while connected to the school during that time.posted by SpacemanStix at 1:39 PM on November 5, 2008

Leiter has a list of philosophers that he uses for his rankings. He marks those faculty that are over 70 with a "*". You can find the list from 2006 here: http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/faclists.asp

That could give you some contemporary examples.posted by singerdj at 5:30 PM on November 5, 2008

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